Polish Ambassador to Vietnam Wojciech Gerwel (R) hands over the vaccine donation to Deputy Minister of Health Truong Quoc Cuong, August 23, 2021. (Photo: VGP/Tran Minh)

Polish Ambassador to Vietnam Wojciech Gerwel handed over the vaccine batch to Deputy Minister of Health Truong Quoc Cuong.

Earlier, the Polish government announced its decision to donate AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Vietnam along with essential medical equipment worth 4 million USD, and its plans to transfer an additional 3 million doses of vaccines to Vietnam.

The shipment of essential medical equipment for COVID-19 prevention and control is expected to arrive Vietnam in early September.

The Vero-Cell vaccine hand-over ceremony at Noi Bai international airport in Hanoi, August 23, 2021. (Photo: VNA)

Also on Monday, a ceremony was held at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi to receive 200,000 doses of Vero-Cell vaccine and more than 200,000 disposable syringes from China’s Defense Ministry for the Ministry of Vietnam’s Defense Ministry.

Vero-Cell vaccine produced by Sinopharm has been approved by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and used in more than 70 countries.